Dem Strategist Attacks Ann Romney as A Stay-At-Home Mom: ‘Never Worked a Day in Her Life’
- Posted on April 12, 2012 at 6:43am by
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Imagine the outrage if a Republican strategist referred to a stay-at-home mom by saying that she was someone who “never worked a day in her life.” How about a mother of five?
A Republican strategist did not say that. But a Democrat did… and it was a female, Democrat strategist named Hilary Rosen. And, as reported by several news outlets, according to the White House visitor logs, Ms. Rosen has stopped by 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue 35 times. National Review’s Jim Geraghty also points out that CIA Director, General David Petraeus has only managed nine visits.
During an appearance on Anderson Cooper’s “AC360” last night, Hilary Rosen (also a CNN regular contributor) made the offensive comment about Mitt Romney’s wife Ann when she told Anderson:
“His wife has actually never worked a day in her life. She’s never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing in terms of how do we feed our kids, how do we send them to school and how do we . . . why we worry about their future.”
(The quote kicks in at the :40 second mark of this clip:)
That comment immediately began bouncing around the social media network and actually inspired Ann Romney’s first (and currently only) tweet on Twitter.
As you might expect, Hilary Rosen was bombarded with messages on Twitter. She quickly scrambled to try and blunt the attacks by tweeting the following:
That comment seemed to get a “nice try, but…” And so, Rosen continued:
It took about an hour, but the Obama campaign realized that Rosen’s comments, and the fact that she is not really backing down from her statement, could be a problem — especially since it doesn’t fit the narrative that the Republicans have waged a “war on women.” Campaign manager Jim Messina jumped into the tweet storm:
Another Obama lieutenant, David Axelrod also posted his denouncement of Rosen’s gaffe:
About the same time that Axelrod and Messina’s tweets appeared, so did one from a female member of the Obama campaign, Stephanie Cutter:
As Democrats moved to distance themselves from Ms. Rosen’s comment, a member of the Romney family jumped in to support mom. Here’s the tweet from Josh Romney:
As Mother’s Day approaches,the worth of ’Stay At Home Moms” is a regular topic on news channels. Each year we learn just how much money mom should be earning for performing all of the tasks involved with raising children. Last year, Salary.com claimed that moms work would be worth $90,000 a year. Five years ago, CNN and ABC both did stories quoting the results of a survey that claimed stay-at-home moms worked 92 hours a week and the work they do should bring in $138,000 a year.
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Comments (336)
hugo65hsv
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:29amDoesn’t anyone remember the liberal Feminist movement calling stay at home mothers “payed whores”.. Well woman lost the Choice to stay at home years ago.. Thanks to the progressive democrats.. Now entitlement agency social workers, Feminist bias family courts, and the prison system father a growing majority of American children.. Nice job liberal democrats..
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:40amNot to mention all the babies they have MURDERED in the womb…
Report Post »IraHayesFlagRaiser
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:23amHow many children did Hilary Rosen raise? Does she have the slightest understanding of how stupid she sounds? She may not … but those who saw here tweet know exactly how stupid she really is!
Go Dems, keep showing your true colors as waht group are really at war with woman!
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:23amHillary Rosen the on-air Liberal Contributor for CNN and a leading GLBT lobbyist?
Work Isn’t Work Unless Democrats Can Tax It right Hilary?
Hilary who raises YOUR children when you are out lobbing DC do tell us what do you think about the people who stay home and RAISE YOUR CHILDREN? Do you pay them? If so why? If it’s not a job?
Maybe Hilary Rosen should lobby Obama to pay his FEMALE staffers the same amount the men staffers get? Hilary why don’t you start at the top of the Democratic dung heap with Obama
Report Post »Females under Obama make 18% LESS than the men do … in the OBAMA WHITE HOUSE
Here’s to YOU and YOUR LEADER Obamas “WAR ON WOMEN” 18% less? Good place to start right Hilary?
lillymckim
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:24amHilary Rosen is any woman’s worst enemy
Report Post »theninthplanet
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:28amGlad to see she’s been thrown under the bus.
Progressive women don’t want to be women, they want to be men.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:37amMaybe that’s why liberals are so dumb, they didn’t have a mother? Now that makes sense.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:49amActually any mom who can afford to stay at home I envy. That “IS” the way a family “IS” supposed to be. “Working moms” leave the kids at home. A higher percentage of those kids get into trouble, use social ‘benefits’ or other programs that increase demand for bigger government.
Report Post »Jayms
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 9:00amWell said. :)
Report Post »IndyGuy
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 9:02amWell there ya have it..It’s the DEMS that have a war on women…Feel free to use that Romney…
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 9:13am.
With all this “War on Women” talk we need a “******’s for Mitt” bumperstickers………
It’ll drive the Left crazy……..
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 9:34amSo the Democrats are saying being a mother and taking care of the home stead doesn’t qualify as a “real job”.
Report Post »Looks like the Demoncrats are waging a war on women and be little the importance that a stay at home mother has with createing a healthy family and productive citizen.
Intense66
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 9:58amLILLYMCKIM… You said a mouthfull and you are on the mark! Thank you!!
Report Post »TAXEVERYONE
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 10:05amShe represents the true face of Obama and his campaign. Now they are trying to run away from the fact that they have been exposed.
Report Post »Thanks to all you Catholics and old white people for electing this moron!!!
rambosharley
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 10:06amThat so-called woman is a complete IDIOT!
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 10:09amStay at home Mom is one of the toughest jobs in America when done right.
The reason we have so many knuckle heads and OWS types, is that women in America stopped raising good kids. They are raised by MTV and the public schools.
Some moms have to work, and I am not putting them down. I am lucky to have a wife that is a devoted mother. She homeschooled for three years, and now my girls are top of their classes in christian private school.
Report Post »pavnvet
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 10:12amSince Rosen broke up with her female partner in 2005, who has been raising their two children? Somehow, I think the Romney’s children have had a better childhood. Sorry, I just can’t picture the kids bringing another kid home from school and say this is my mommy and over here is my mommy too. I hope she voices a lot more of this strategy. Hopefully, it will help swing most clear thinking women away from Obozo.
Report Post »1proud_Texan
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 10:20amWhen my son was very young, I would work night shift in the emergency room as a ER nurse for a “ break”. Being a stay at home mom is hard work. I’ve been blessed to stay home with my son the last 10 years. My hat is off to Ann Romney for raising 5 sons!
Report Post »May Clark
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 10:42amFarcical!!!! Don’t these liberals get it that a majority of women are sick of the working mother lifestyle?
Report Post »Here’s a challenge for the liberals – Get a reputable company to do an extensive survey asking working women of teenagers if being a working mother was worth it. Have you ever noticed no one ever asks these questions in opinion polls? All of the working mothers I’ve seen are sick and tired (as they should be) of being asked to do two jobs at once. Any of you remember the women’s lib hype about how all women were destined to become astronauts, presidents and CEO’s? It was only evil men who kept them out these jobs. Well, where are the women in great numbers filling all of the so-called male jobs? From what I see, most working mothers are stuck in low paying, drudge jobs. They are always exhausted and stressed out because no one can serve two masters. Women were much better off when couples got married and stayed married and if women wanted to – they were allowed by society to stay at home and take care of their family. With people living so long, there is plenty of time in life to raise a family and then go have a glorious career. The libs are trying to make women jealous, but I hope they start a national discussion of why women and children are so worse off now than they were years ago. Let’s get a world wide discussion going to see if women do believe the liberation movement has fulfilled its promise.
teamarcheson
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 10:48amHer husband earned enough to support his family. At least she didn’t take a job away from a women who really needed a job. Democrats insult all women who remain at home to care for their family and home. Try staying home and doing all the work around the home that is needed to be done.
At the end of the day, a man’s work is done but a mothers work is never done..
Report Post »DownWithDems
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 10:49amWhat a pathetic insult to all women everywhere.
Just another example of the lowlifes that Obama surrounds himself with.
I am sending the Obama Operative words to every female that I know in the USA.
Everyone should do the same. How dare this B*TCH demean Ann Romney.
Ann Romney has more class than all these Democratic Liberal Clowns put together.
Ann, Your husband has my vote. **** ROMNEY 2012 ****
Report Post »P8riot
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 11:17amMotherhood is a sacred calling and requires harder work than any job out there!
What would help society more – more bank managers or more stay at home moms???
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 11:31amWhat do you expect other than hypocrisy from a mentally ill person. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
BTW – It seems Ann and Barry have something in common. Except I think Ann probably did work and Barry hasn’t ever. Maybe Hilary was confused. As liberal she doesn’t even know what work is.
Report Post »freeus
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 11:56amMaybe that is why when she does get home Hilary’s kids ask her, “Are you my mother?”
Report Post »RJL
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:05pmI have all the respect in the world for Ann Romney. Hillary and the wife of Hussain couldn’t be compared in the same sentence with Mrs. Romney. Ann is what every young woman should look up to as a model Wife and Mother and now Grandmother.
Hillary and Hussains wife are mothers but of a different kind.
Report Post »Rick Steele
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:20pmRegarding Hillary Rosen v Ann Romney…suggested comback for Mitt:
“I agree with Hillary on one thing…I don’t think women are the equal of men. They’re superior.”
Report Post »Nations
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:27pmThanks to LBJ and their subsequent Obamacrats for this silly attitude toward women. My mom stayed at home and raised three kids and helped educate us to the values of being Christ-like. It was no easy task. It is the Hoodwinking of the public with lies about women being in the pockets of the Demos. Any woman who truly knows reality would tell them to go to H. I pray women wake up to the Obamacrats before it is too late for the rest of us. Obama got 70% of his votes from young women who probably did not know, due to Oprah and the media, but lets wake them up to the real world. Obama must be voted out.
Report Post »Heather Mae 74
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 1:14pmThen Obama says “Michelle didn’t have the luxury to stay home” because he only mad over $100k per year. First it‘s not luxury it’s SACRIFICE. Second my family of 5 lives very well on 21k yet the government tells me I am living in poverty (Ha ha ha) We are doing great we have a home 2 cars all the latest gadgets we even have room for tithe (Thank you Jesus for what you have provided) I still haven’t heard 1 liberal idea that has helped me the class of people that they want to help they should do my kids a favor and just move to Europe and leave my REPUBLIC ALONE!!!
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:18pmlibs hate real women
Report Post »chewfatlip
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:29amNot unexpected from barry’s campaign. Have a minion attack their opponent’s family while saying that families are off limits.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:49amExactly .. too bad Romney doesn’t have some young kids they can go after (especially a special needs like the youngest Palin)… perhaps they can find a grandchild who was slow to potty train….
but don’t you dare even mention the Obama daughters or their grandeous vacations etc .. just like their mother.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:21amWhy is it unexpected? They have Ann Romney open pretty much every major speech that mitt romney gives.
When you put your family up there in front of the cameras like that – you are only asking for trouble
Report Post »Kankokage
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 9:36amVery poor counter argument soybomb. First off, Obama trots his kids in front of the camera all the time, uses them as props for his legilative desires, etc. You make it sound like our families should be locked in a dungeon, when all you need to do is admit and accept that this woman isn’t just attacking Ann, she is attacking stay-at-home moms everywhere. I know it is difficult for you to understand that Obama and his advisors aren’t perfect beings, but this is ridiculous.
Report Post »iampraying4u
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 9:57amIts to bad she didnt work full time so the tv could raise her kids
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 10:13amSince you say she’s on “Barry’s Campaign”, is it fair to portray any right-wing crackpot who says something deemed controversial as being on Special-Jesus-Underwear Romney’s Campaign?
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 10:50amAmerican women everywhere need to release their anger on Obama. He hates women and that is why Michelle, the girls and Mamma refuse to ride on the same plane with Obama. Obama has given in to the Dark Side.
Report Post »Kankokage
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 11:57amShe goes to the White House – a lot. She is an advisor to the DNC and to Obama. She is a managing director of the firm that trotted Sandra Fluke in front of the cameras. She isn’t some shlub in the audience – she is a major player. Or is that you believe stay-at-home moms are worthless like she does?
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 1:03pm@ Vance….she (Hilary Rosen) works for the DNC – that would be the Democrat National Committee. What do you suppose the main job of the DNC is?
Report Post »EP46
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:29amAnn Romney has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University. I would think she could have ‘gotten a job’ . Also, it is nice to know that she and her husband ‘could afford’ to take care of the 5 sons they chose to raise.
Report Post »John Kerry’s wife, Teresa, Heinz ketchup millionaire…tried this when she said Laura Bush had never worked….forgetting the years Mrs. Bush worked as a teacher and librarian.
HorseCrazy
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 11:31amyes it truly will never work to attack her for chosing her family over business. I have many friends who stay at home even though their families are on tight budgets because they want to be there for their husbands and kids full time. Nothing ever to be ashamed of. The feminist movement has tried so hard to destroy the stay at home mom, gender roles, and the american family. some of us women refuse to give in to their standards.
Report Post »stinkybisquit
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:28amWaiting for the inevitable “That’s not what we meant; we need to make ourselves clear” statement they always put out.
Report Post »thunder4570
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:44amIt is always the case with these people, have one person say something completely stupid, see if it gets any traction if it does everyone jumps the band wagon, if it dont they distance themselves from it.Most famous quote from Dems….. “you just did not understand the point I was making”. In english that means….. “You are too stupid to get what I was talking about”.
Report Post »grand slam grandam
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 11:16amHey, TxAnnie! If ever you should become bored and/or disinterested in your life’s journey, you could always become a freelance writer because you are goood!! Thanks for being your expressive and emphatic self! Your post was most interesting.
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:24amI am not defending the women statements, but I think she was referring to holding a job outside of the home. Stay at home moms are not the Leave it to Beaver June Cleaver fictional moms that wear aprons and dust and vacuum 5 times a day. They are more like going to the gym, meeting other “hard working” moms at the coffee shop showing off their Bob strollers stay at home moms. Their idea of a healthy lunch is taking the kids to McDonald’s and having them play in the Mc Happy House.
Now of course Ms. Romney was/is not that type of stay at home mom. She is a Mormon and was probably raised to be submissive to their man. I am also married to an ex-Mormon and she supports this ideology to an extent. That said, most Mormon women are college educated; they are true supporters of the family unit, and they do a lot more than many think including canning, tailoring, and other important types of survival techniques that seem only important to today’s modern preppers.
I would say that Ms. Romney is 10x the woman of this libstupid writer. As a matter of fact, I would say that she would make a fantastic first lady — probably one of the best.
Report Post »Athinkerinaseaoflibs
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:56amAnd just what is wrong with June Cleaver? Clearly the children that were raised in the 50s and 60s were not perfect (See Bill Clinton and most of the leftist that have too much influence today) but that is more of function of the destruction of the family that was occurring all around them at the time not a because of the families that were remaining intact. My wife and I made the decision before we were married that when we had children, the real work would begin. While she does not wear a dress and pearls every day, it is quite often that the kids do come home to a plate fresh cookies and milk. My wife has advanced engineering degrees and probably could demand more pay than I do if she had stayed in industry. When we had our first child, she was earning more than I was.
Report Post »militarybrat1
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:08amWhen my husband and I married we agreed MUTUALLY to have me stay home and raise the kids. We hated the way children behaved when raised by day care workers. It’s just not the same. And NO I don’t go to the gym and coffee, I clean my own house and do my laundry. I agree some of those women make me sick. But my husband works MANY hours so I can stay home, that doesn’t mean that I am submissive to him, and niether does it for A. Romney. My husband respects me, I see it in the way he works hard so I can stay home with the kids, I know they are better for it. Trust me, I could have gone out like A. Romney and made lots of money. We are not rich, we figured out how to manage money so I could stay at home. Staying home with the kids is the greatest reward the Lord blessed me with besides my hard working and LOVING husband.
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:19amIts a damn shame that she was not working and earning the extra income to support the family unit. I have no problem with June Cleaver. I was simply pointing out that times had changed and many “stay at home moms” are not true “stay at home moms”. My wife is a chemical engineer, and I work in IT as a CIO we have kids, and we both work. My one son goes to a christian day care and the other is in private school. Something we would not have been able to do without two professional incomes. I find this to be more important than to struggle like my parents did and just live on one income. It is important to understand that I do not demonize stay at home moms or dads for that matter as long as they are stay at home moms and it does not infringe on supporting the family unit financially. If you can afford it and it is not a burden on the family and/or infringes on the tax payer via subsidies go for it. I personally support the idea of two incomes and a higher education and/or trade skill that can pay the bills and supply a money cushion in case someone gets laid off or loses their job.
We make enough money that one could stay home, but we both love our careers and the finical comfort that it provides. My kids will never be left out of anything due to financial constraints. Furthermore, my kids will not get a free pass and will be paying for their own higher education and other items just like we did. We the parents will never forget were we came from — poor famil
Report Post »cherigc
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:20amEXCUSE ME!!! I am a stay at home mom of two boys. I have worked 3 jobs at a time in the past and I can tell you I have NEVER EVER worked so hard as staying home, taking care of my house, my kids and my husband! My friends that work tell me it is MUUUCH HARDER to stay at home than go to work every day. You have no idea, so dont judge!
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:27amGive me a freaking break. Run a company and or engineering consulting dealing with budgets in the 100 million range and manage 100s of people. I am not talking about being a checker at Target, I am talking about working professionals that is not based on physical labor, but mental labor. I respect your choice and have no problem with it as long as one income is enough to provide effectively without having to pinch pennies every second.
Report Post »1956
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 9:06amWhen your kids are being raised by daycares and after-school programs, YOU are not the ones raising your kids. Someone else is.
God bless Mrs. Romney for making the decision to be her kids’ mom. I work two part time jobs, but I’m home in the mornings to see my kids off to school, and I’m waiting at home for my kids when they get off the bus. I help them with their homework, and I take them to their after-school activities.
The dems could learn a thing or two from those stay-at-home moms who have to live on a budget and handle multiple tasks at one time. THAT’s a job. When I go into my PT jobs, I’ve got it easy compared to what I do at home with the kids.
Report Post »txannie
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 10:16amI’ve read your entire thread and hear a real condecending attitude towards women not meeting your standards of education and performance. We have been schooled to think that having a certificate from an institution of “higher” learning is proof we are smarter and work harder than those that don’t have that certificate. My answer to that is, try running a ranch, working self-employed jobs with your children, schooling your children and supporting the fact that your husband and partner in all this works two jobs to make sure your children lack for nothing. Listening to someone like you that cannot see that any other situation other than the one you are setting up is not as hard as yours is offensive. Money is NOT the magic cure to making sure your children are raised right. Again, the demeaning of a woman that does not get a degree and go to work at a job as defined by a biased society is alive and well in our popular view of current thinking.
Report Post »Hmschlmom
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 10:47am“They are more like going to the gym, meeting other “hard working” moms at the coffee shop showing off their Bob strollers stay at home moms. Their idea of a healthy lunch is taking the kids to McDonald’s and having them play in the Mc Happy House.”
You don’t know many homeschooling families, do you?
We have picnics and park days…not coffee at the gym!
(Mc’ds? Not likely! More like a sandwich in the park after co-op!)
Report Post »HuckleberryFriend
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 10:50amYou’re entitled to your opinion, but I have actually been an engineer with multimilllion dollar projects with scores of people to supervise, albeit not as big of projects as you apparently headed. Before being an engineer, I worked IT for small companies, dug ditches in construction, mowed lawns and pulled weeds for landscaping and performed various other manual labor jobs to pay my way through college.
Maybe I’ve just had it easy by your measure, but, I took a paycut so I could consult from home and become a stay at home dad because I didn’t want strangers to raise my child. (My wife makes more than me so she stayed at her job.) Maybe it is because child rearing isn’t exactly in my wheelhouse, but I have to say, while it isn‘t necessarily more difficult than other stuff I’ve done, it is no less demanding and requires much more finesse, patience and perseverance than I’ve ever expected of myself or employees.
You can claim it isn’t as hard, but by my measure, while it doesn’t necessarily draw on my normal work skill set, it requires a lot from a whole other set of skills that are harder to pull from in my experience. Sure you get your micro-dose of this between the time you get home from work and send the kids to bed, but it is a whole other story to be a constant mentor to your children. If it was so easy, why would you even pay for daycare?
Just my 2 cents.
Report Post »HuckleberryFriend
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:23amVery strange how Democrats denigrate homemakers for managing a household and raising children yet Democrats turn around and encourage folks to stay at home, sit on the couch, and only brush off the cheetos dust when the monthly bit of socialism arrives in the mail. Its like Democrats consider you worthless unless you truly are a leech on the system.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:21amNow that sounds like an attack on women to me, obviously this thing has never tried it, that’s the toughest job on the planet.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:44amI went from stay at home mom .. to HAVING to work .. and I can tell you it was B’s like this woman that treated me like dirt for having the NERVE to have stayed home … while being a stay at home mom I often picked up and/or cared for other kids who’s mom worked .. often when they were sick. My family had home cooked from scatch meals (saving money) I did the yard work .. all the cleaning (amazing how many of these working moms have people come in to clean for them and never cook a meal .. some actually “bragged” that they didn’t cook .. and didn’t know how) I was an accountant, financial planner, cook, seamstress, practically ran a laundry, taxi service, educator, EMT, gardener, etc .. all under the “title” of stay at home mom.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:24amno, sounds like politics. if ann romney were not used by the romney campaign so much, she wouldnt have been a target
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 11:48amWith five boys, I think Ann Romney can claim the title of Community Organizer.
Report Post »ITOLDUSO
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:20amHave they forgot that thier idol, oboma has never had a job. Michelle has never worked. This is just a show of ignorance to attack his wife. They need to clean thier yard before trashing another.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:18amI’d just like somebody to tell me where there is a more noble, honorable and important job than a woman raising her children and keeping the home in order. My description of the job is only nine words but to cover everything involved in it would take a sizable book.
It always upsets me when someone speaks of the most important job in the world as if it were some kind of a menial position.
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:17amOh am I being stupid here I thought Axelrod was mayor of Chicago and not in the WH anymore, OK me dumb
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:23amRahm Emmanuel is mayor of Chicago. Axelrod left his WH post to head the O re-election team in Chicago
Report Post »elkaypee
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:17amSince Ann Romney has never held a job in her life, maybe she is more qualified to be US President since she and Obama share this quality.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:09amI got news for all of you, Ann Romney was a Bishops wife and a Stake Presidents wife. They are some of the busiest people I know. Maybe you think all the works churches do just “happens” It doesn’t. I think people should look a bit further, they will find her charitable works immense. Isn’t it about doing what we want as women? I am very sure her education hasen’t been “wasted”. How nice for her she could have the chance to do so. That is the American dream.
Report Post »grand slam grandam
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 11:57amFunny! Excellent repartee!
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:15amTypical democratic left wing , say something ugly and then back out as fast as you can . If you look at history communists and socialists tended to destroy women first because they know the inherent strength of the “mother” instinct . The so called “stay at home ” women work 24 – 7. Because I know I am happily married to one and I tell do not ever get in between her and her children and grand children EVER, even after 37 years there are times I play second fiddle! Communists make woman equal only when the are willing to give up their children that is why most of them are single angry personalities in the first place just look at Hilary (Hilarious, my nick name, she has no conjones0 She is starting to look very unappetizing as the days go by and no-one pays any attention anymore as far as her Office is concerned.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:13amAnd the ‘esteemed’ Ms. Rosen has how many kids? I wonder.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:16amIf she has any, I‘m betting they’re the result of mitosis. I mean, what a ghastly female! What self-respecting man would…. never mind. That‘s something the mind’s eye can’t unsee.
I‘m a mom of 3 and there is NO WAY I’d allow my children anywhere near her. She might eat them or something….
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:34amOMG, Bio; Mitosis! LOL – I’m typing thru tears…
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:43am@Jack, tee hee! Glad I could start your day off right! :)
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:49amNow about that Getaway in Stockholm…
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:55amWell, I don’t have that car and even if I did, I’m sure my husband would say “NO!” in a heartbeat. He doesn’t trust my driving.
Not that much.
Not saying that I can blame him….
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 9:02amMost of the good ones are taken…sigh…to tell you the truth, though, I don’t think Stockholm would ever be the same after we were through with it!
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 9:13amThank you! I‘ll let my husband know that I’m blessed to have him, even though he never did let me drive his NSX when we had it. And true that about Stockholm!
Report Post »pavnvet
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 10:15amMs. Rosen is a lesbian. Her former partner and her claimed to have two children. However, I don’t know who has custody.
Report Post »schlitten15
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 10:56pmFrom what I heard, she adopted Twins with her partner years ago.
Report Post »BetterNTexas
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:12amYou know, there are many women out there, like myself, who have sacrificed so that we can stay home raising our children. We do this because we believe that it’s our personal responsibility to raise the children we bring into this world into good, responsible people who can in turn raise their own families and bless their communities. We consider this to be the most important work of our lives.
There are many of us out here who would like to be able to stay home with our kids but can’t because the economy is awful. There are many of us out here who have had to enter the work force because our husbands have lost their jobs. There are many of us out here who have both husband and wife working minimum wage jobs in order to keep food on the table and our electricity bill paid–people like my parents who used to be solidly middle class but who are barely hanging in there. My dad‘s job isn’t counted in the unemployment numbers because he’s given up looking for the kind of work he used to have.
Hilary Rosen you are the one who has no clue. And you can‘t tell me Axelrod and Messina weren’t for what Rosen said until Twitter made them be against it.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:18amYou couldn’t have said it better.
Report Post »dictionmary
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:12amDemocrats—pro-women??? ONE of their greatest societal lies.
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:10amSilly people, the state is supposed to raise your children! If you stay home, that only prolongs the indoctrination!!!!
Report Post »militarybrat1
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:20amYou hit the nail on the head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Report Post »Summerafternoon65
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:09amOh…. This just makes me angry just because she worked to take care of her children …. HANDS OFF…. Obama and your supporters!
Report Post »momrules
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:06amThis silly little Dem just forgot for a moment that it is the Republicans that are supposed to hate women.
Report Post »I stopped being employed when my daughter was born, then I started working
Being a homemaker and mother is one of the hardest jobs in the world if it is done well.It is also the most rewarding job ever.
I wouldn’t trade one moment of the time I spent raising my children for all the money I could have made working outside the home.
lakemom
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:06amARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!! This kind of talk just infuriates me! Leftist don’t want “choices” for women they want us to toe a party line. Free s3x in our teens and twentys while having multiple abortions followed by graduating college and getting a “good job” and paying someone else to watch our kids for 50 hours per week. Well NO!! I CHOSE to stay home since the birth of my oldest (almost 27 years ago, we have 6 with the youngest only 5yo) and my choice is just as valid and those who chose to continue working after the birth of their children. And trust me the economic realities of staying home with the children and living on one income are just as tough (or tougher) than the financial implications of having to worry about daycare and losing your job if you end up taking too much time off when your kids need you.
Report Post »lizamae
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:05amas always the media jumps on sensationalism. this was not about the fact she had not worked outside of the home or that her work in the home is not difficult or important. she was making a statement that mitt romney can not make his policy on the advice of his wife as she is not qualified to do so.and secondly she was trying to bring in the fact that under mitt romney women right my go backwards instead of forward. they need to get of rosen’s back. both of my daughters are stay at home moms and it is a BIG job. thirdly i think Ms. Romney was just trying to inform her husband that women are very concerned about the economy especially if they are single parents
Report Post »BetterNTexas
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:16amOh no. We know what Rosen was trying to say. She was going for a “two-fer.” She was trying to say that because Romney is wealthy, he could keep little Ann at home as a “kept woman” who never had to work a day in her life.
So the reality is it was yet another attack on people who are wealthy, while attacking Ann as “out of touch” because she stayed at home.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:13amnext time you come here, pay attention to your spell checker
its there for a reason
Report Post »Infidel49
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 6:52amYeah, just like Palin’s family huh?
Report Post »grimmy
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 6:51amGotta love the lefts women,butt ugly and bitter.Oh, and a wee bit jealous……
Report Post »Mike Opelka
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:01amGrimmy… please don’t stoop to that level! Let’s stay on the facts and not get dragged into the mud.
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:09amYeah, I noticed that too. Lefty women are usually not attractive at all!
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:14amThe female left give women a bad name. One day they are trying to get us to stop killing seals and the next they want tax payers to fund clinics so they can kill humans. Then when somone stays home to raise thier children (freeing up a job) they demonize them.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:23amOne thing you can’t hide
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EP46
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:36amSHE is critizing Mrs. Romney who is a cancer survivor and who now has multiple sclerosis? It is not enought to have a Left Wing manufactured War on Women…..is the Left now having a War on People with Disabilities ???
Report Post »TurkE
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 8:17amDon’t forget, easy…and maybe a little greasy. ‘Just sayin’
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 6:50amReally? Sounds like a WAR on WOMEN to me. If a mom stays home, that’s not work? What does Michelle Obama do again, besides vacation on the taxpayers dime?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:01amExcellent points .. ;-) Stay at home mom IS WORK! and I bet that Ann Romney has done more charity work while raising her family ….. than M.O. has done in her whole life! (during the last election I challenged some libs to find ANYTHING that MO had ever voluteered or supported .. they could find nothing )
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:22amMichelle Obama’s “token” job (VP) at U of Chicago Medical Center (pay raise of around 200K) after Obama earmarked $1 million for the center. Her job was eliminated after she left. And, I don‘t recall seeing Ann’s name on the ballot. She raised children, ran a household and was a wife. Those things in themselves, should qualify as a job.
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 7:22amgood call…..Rue Paul errrrr Mike Obama has chefs cook for her she doesnt doesnt drive her kids to school, and they want to demonize Mrs Romney? now whos calling the kettle black?
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 10:17am@ColoradoMaverick
Report Post »Yes it’s a war on women. Trying to force women to do with their bodies what you wish them to do is not a war on women, saying women shouldn’t work or pursue a higher education (Santorum) isn’t a war on women, but Hilary Rosen pointing out that Ann Romney, as a woman who has never worked an actual JOB in her life, is not exactly qualified to speak on behalf of struggling working mothers, yes, that’s a war on women.
lukerw
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 6:50amNow… that’s the Entitlement Receiver… calling the Cash Cow… Black!
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 6:50amMost definitely a very difficult job .
Report Post »JULIANNAROY
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 3:03pmmy roomate’s sister makes $88 every hour on the internet. She has been out of work for 9 months but last month her income was $14428 just working on the internet for a few hours. Read more here.. http://trunc.it/kkpwa
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